2013 Syrah Cellar Door

2013 Syrah Cellar DoorEvery year at Clonakilla we fill a single fermenter with pure Shiraz from our North East facing T & L vineyard. The winemaking is kept as simple as possible. Whole berries are fermented warm by their own native yeasts. The wine spends a month macerating on skins and fifteen months maturing in fine grained French oak. 2013 is one of the great vintages. The days were beautifully warm and the nights cool. These were the right conditions for the grapes to

just as we were entering the final ripening phase

Through it all the fruit ripened steadily

Canberra District did not escape the effects of the drought that gripped much of NSW

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Our ‘Chateauneuf-du-Pape’ block is one of the higher sites on the estate and so escaped the frosts of October 2023

18 months in tight grain French oak barriques

Our Cabernet family vines thrived in the cooler conditions and elevated humidity

the more effective they are at accessing the complex mineral and nutritional resources in the soil

Steady warmth right through to mid-autumn

6% Viognier

40 mm in the second last week of March gave us some challenges

making a complete whole